Modeling Phase Transitions in the Brain

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Steyn-Ross, D. Alistair (Editor), Steyn-Ross, Moira (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience ; 4
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Anesthesiology.; Neurology.; Bioinformatics.; Computational biology.; Neurobiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.

Foreword by Walter J. Freeman. The induction of unconsciousness using anesthetic drugs demonstrates that the cerebral cortex can operate in two very different modes: alert and responsive versus unaware and quiescent. But the states of wakefulness and sleep are not single-neuron properties---they eme...